Famous quotes containing the words english and/or fleet:
“... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)